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Is printing support for Linux a target for eclipse 2.0?
CM to provide a description of the current SOTW of printing on linux/motif.
Printing on X is currently blocked because of: http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=8821 It would be more tempting to find a work-around for this problem if indeed more X people actually used X Printing. But X people seem to prefer to generate Postscript. Nobody (almost nobody) on X uses the Xprt server. Consequently, it has bugs, very few printers have drivers, and it is not well supported. In fact, I found no evidence that it was supported at all. My Linux install was updated, and our infra people were not able to get Xprt running on the new install. There is still an open req for this. Until that happens, I can't do any printing testing. Probably the whole X Printer thing should be scrapped (even though we did get it working, and it worked fine for us) and perhaps we ought to consider getting into the business of generating postscript on X for draw calls to a printer GC, as ludicrous as that may be. It will be interesting to see what the GTk people come up with for printing. Also interesting is Mac printing - I assume they are closer to "drawing on a GC" like Windows does. But who knows - Mac OS X has X underneath it - so maybe they got sucked in to the "all you need is postscript" mentality. Bottom line is this: There will be no Linux printing support for eclipse 2.0.
This is not completely true. For example: Mozilla has a working Xprint module (to suppprt non-ISO-Latin1 content, e.g. japanese/korean/thai/cyrillc - even MathML works :) and platforms like Solaris and HP-UX come with working versions of Xprt (X11 print server). Unfortunately the Xprt binaries builds from Xfree86 sources are broken... but I am working on a fixed version for all Unix/Linux variants. See http://puck.informatik.med.uni-giessen.de/people/gisburn/work/xprint/ and http://xprint.mozdev.org/ (there are links for a working Linux x86 Xprt binary; source coming soon, too :)
fixed > 20020918
I am running Eclipse 2.1 M3 GTK and I still cannot print under Linux. I do not understand why this bug is fixed. --Daniel
This PR is (or at least should be) related to Linux/Motif. Look at Bug#24796 to know more about printing on GTK. I think is better to keep information about printing in Motif and GTK on different PRs. Therefore I'm closing this one.
Moving back to SWT.
